What is understanding?

Understanding, the way I see it, is knowing how something works and being able to explain it. So to me knowing and understanding is the same thing. If you know something, you understand it and if you understand it, you know it. Things get tricky when you have to know if the stuff you know and understand is true or not because information that is not true is pretty much useless. On that note there are things that you probably shouldn't or don't need to understand. I'm not saying the information should be kept hidden but sometimes things are just not worth the time. Which brings up the question how do you know what is worth your time and effort? surely there are things that would never be used but does that make it unnecessary to learn? And how would you measure the level of understanding in something? unlike video games, life does not show you experience or levels although that would be very cool and i would like to see google glasses or something implement that in their product. But back to the question. How would you measure understanding? at what point would you consider it to be understanding? and if you can't measure it, is it real? is there something as too much understanding? maybe there is. you know when someone knows too much and they get really cocky? maybe that's too much understanding there because no one likes a know it all. why us understanding so subjective? as much as subjectivity is nice, it never gets anything done. it's like being politically correct. it just wastes a lot of people's energy. like i dont understand it.

Last 3rd quarter post?

The most talked about thing online right now is probably net neutrality and the death of Leonard Nimoy. Leonard played Spock on Star Trek and now he's dead and apparently a lot of people are really torn up about it. It's sad but i feel like only missing him because his role in 1 show is kind of pointless? The other thing, net neutrality and i think that net neutrality is really super important because everyone uses the internet and it would be a shame if that internet becomes restricted. It would affect a huge amount of people. First off internet is expensive as is and making it more expensive would suck. That's like my biggest fear as an adult like oh man gotta pay for my own wifi. i don't think i'm ready for that kind of responsibility yet. I don't know i feel like net neutrality that pretty much affects everyone and the only people who support it are the people who will be profiting off of it. Which is great. It's nice to see a group of people working together towards a common goal. It's kind of like in school where you hate someone and you find someone who hates the same person as you and you guy become friends. Because nothing brings two people closer together than the mutual hatred for a third person. True story. Not even just people. Hell even countries do that i mean isn't that pretty much what an alliance is? You hate him? I hate him too! lets be friends? If i had a life motto it would probably be "if you don't have something nice to say come sit with me and we can make fun of everyone together". Hate is good every now and again. It's what really gets people going you know? Screw inspiration. Inspiration is knowing you can rub your achievement into your enemy's face and laugh at them for sucking more than you do and that's great. You know at least you aren't the worst right? If you can't be first, be third because second place is just first place loser. And that is why people with bronze medals are so much happier than people who get silver medals. You get this mentality after you give up that says don't try but also don't suck. Unless you are a vacuum. In that case suck away all the dirt and stuff than vacuums suck up. Life is going to be okay if you're mediocre. Chances are you will never make it big anyways so just settle with it you know. Make do with what you have because that is so much less stress and less stress is good. Schools just teach you that failing is bad and students freak out when they fail but what the schools fail to teach is that failure is okay and it happens to the best of us. What's important is that you don't let it get to your head because heads are important and there will be more opportunities and it's just gonna be okay if you screw up once or twice or maybe 677 times but you know who's counting anyways?

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So one thing that's been really big lately is 50 Shades of Grey. There are 3 books in the series and also the movie just came out. I hear the movie turned out to be a huge disappointment although the things showing up on tumblr can be pretty funny. Although i haven't read the books or seen the movie, i think i can get a pretty good idea of what they are about. A part of me is really disappointed in the movie but at the same time i'm glad because there created so many jokes about 50 shades of grey and they are all kind of funny. Some of which are completely not okay to put on a school homework blog. On a totally unrelated topic the guy who tool his senior picture with his cat is dead. Remember that? The senior who took a picture with his cat with lasers shooting all over and it became a meme for a while. Yeah he committed suicide. I don't really know the details but he's dead and that's all i know. Well today's also the Oscars and I'm totally not interested but with all the stuff in those goodie bags I would be fine with losing. Seriously. Little statue vs a bag of everything... it's pretty clear bag of stuff wins every time.

first one

Can books and stories about characters and events that are not real teach us anything useful? Well that really depends on what you think is not real and what is useful. I think that there are books out there that aren't true but still are able to teach us useful things but it really does depend on the book. There are some books that are completely non fiction with aliens and different planets and all that and as far as usefulness goes it really is all morals and less life skills. On the other hand there are books that take place on Earth but have characters and events that don't exist or won't/haven't happened yet. In those cases they might be able to teach you something useful like skills that you would need in your daily lives. So really it does depend on the actual book itself. Don't pick up a Shakespearean tragedy and expect to be able to fix someone's car engine by the end of the week.

numbah 8 newsy stuff

So one thing thats been on the news lately was the death of a Jordanian pilot named Muath al-Kasaesbeh. He was burned alive by ISIS and the video of his death was released. Jordan and ISIS were in the stages of negotiation when Muath was killed. I think how Jordan reacted was great. Probably the best reaction to terrorism. After the release of the video of Muath being burned alive, they executed 2 terrorists and sent air strikes to destroy IS hideouts. In 3 days Jordan sent out 56 air strikes. The best part is that it is rumored that King Abdullah II will actually be personally leading the air strikes and that is really cool because he is the king of Jordan. The fact that the king himself is fighting against IS really shows how capable he is as a leader and to what extent he is willing to go to fight for his people. Before Abdullah II became king of Jordan, he was Major General of the Jordinian Special Forces so it makes sense. I feel like being a part of the military should be a requirement for all presidents/political leaders because then they will really know what is going on outside of their offices. It's pretty awesome. Like a plot out of some action movie or something.

Umm can i do the thing?

Thoughts of a high school students huh? Alright okay I can do this. This is doable. So what are my thoughts? What are some online safe thoughts that I can type up? Oh I know! For starters personal projects are a really really stupid idea and whoever came up with it clearly has no idea what it's like to be a student these days. And what's even stupider is the fact that personal projects are forced because being forced to do a project makes it so personal. It's great that you're trying to motivate students and hey it might actually help in the long run but it's boring and stupid because if students really cared they would have done it themselves already. Clearly no one gives two shits about personal projects. It's just more work that isn't graded and with all the other projects that are assigned with tests and having to volunteer and joining clubs so you can be "academically well rounded" there just isn't time to do things for fun let alone do things for school that aren't even that important so maybe schools should just stop with the you have to do this and that. It would be a lot more effective if schools actually made people want to learn about things. The standardized testing and pressure to do well is a real turn off. Boring. There's this thing. It's like the peak of performance for students and when a student is pushed beyond that point nothing matters anymore because no matter how hard you try there will just be more work to do and that never really goes away so you start cheating and it all goes downhill from there. Who cares though? Just don't get caught it doesn't matter anymore oh well. You win some you lose some. I blame the education system. Yep. That's it. Thanks a lot America.  Way to ruin the next generation. What else is on my mind? Hmm today is the Super Bowl but I don’t really care. Sports just aren’t my thing. I see no point in running back and forth chasing a ball. Why are professional players even paid that much anyways? Sports really don't contribute anything useful to anyone at all. Why not take some pay cuts and give more money to people who are underpaid? Like soldiers. They could use the extra money and their job isn't the safest so they deserve a little more pay. You know what else is a really cool idea? I think it was the Netherlands but the people pay half the taxes during November or December so they have enough money for Christmas and I think that's a really cool idea because Christmas is awesome and everyone should be able to celebrate it. If they want to. They don’t have to. That would be unconstitutional. Yeah that's pretty much it except why are there so much allergies? This sucks. And what's up with the weather? It has  been really jacked up like one day its warm and sunny and nice and you're like wow it's literally the perfect weather but then it gets cold the next day and you're like WTF so it's weird. Why?

Numbah two

Success and happiness can totally be dependent on the choices and actions of an individual but some things are still very hard to change. For example, if there were multiple universes, the idea that choices and actions can result in happiness and success is very plausible. Each and every decision any person makes is one universe and the choice that they didn’t make would be the other universe and each and every person's choices, all seven billion people and their choices and all the universes would also have to be taken into consideration. The choices of other people who also shape the world would also have to be something that would have to be considered and since one person cannot control everyone else's decisions. It's all about the alternate universes and its awesome because anything is possible in an alternate universe. Even Santa Claus is real because in an alternate universe, Santa is real and in an alternate universe Santa could also be a universe jumping being which makes it possible for there to be a Santa Claus in this universe because he traveled from another and that's pretty cool because Santa equals presents. Also in an alternate universe I could travel from universe to universe and hopefully the other me has thought about visiting me and brings me a present or something from another universe because that would be cool to have. It's like a souvenir from a trip I never really took but did. Also I could kidnap other mes and commit crimes and the alternate universe me could be my fall man. It's a genius idea because I am technically in jail and if I keep robbing stuff and even if my DNA and fingerprints everywhere, how would they possible believe it was me because I am technically in jail and there can only be one of me. Even though that's not true and there are in fact a bunch of me and imagine the crime sprees. It would be so confusing and I could be everywhere at once and since there are so many of me I could divide up the homework and technically do my homework so much faster and it wouldn't be plagiarism or anything because I wrote me a paper and that's technically not stealing. I guess cloning is still a possibility but if clones of yourself were legal, people would probably make a way to track all the clones and differentiate between clones and real people. Which would also lead to a black market for clones which is like human trafficking but you know since they aren't human human would it be clone trafficking? Would they be considered human? Clones would provide a lot of organs and stuff that people on the transplant list would need so would there be organ farms where they grow clones only to kill them and steal their insides to sell to rich shady people who want to cling onto life for a little while longer? Would that be a thing?